Code block literals

[Alex Martelli]

Bengt Richter wrote:
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> This way lambda would only be needed for backwards compatibility, and
> since "def(" is a syntax error now, IWT it could be introduced cleanly.

In theory, yes, I think it could (and wrt my similar idea with 'do' has
the advantage of not requiring a new keyword).  In practice, trying to
hack the syntax to allow it seems a little nightmare.  Wanna try your
hand at it?  I'm thinking of Grammar/Grammar and Modules/parsermodule.c ...


Alex